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August 17, 2016

Kurdish daily closes as Turkey media crackdown continues

By Freddy Mayhew

A historical Kurdish daily newspaper has become the latest news organisation to be forcibly shut down in Turkey.

A court in Istanbul ordered the closure of the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgur Gundem on Tuesday, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

The opposition paper is accused of spreading propaganda on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been declared a terrorist organisation by the government.

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